Low Income Housing To Be Built On Hospital Site

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Bill Call
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Low Income Housing To Be Built On Hospital Site

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All those promises
All the effort and
All that was lost all,
All, all, all for this?



https://www.news5cleveland.com/news/loc ... pital-site

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pj bennett
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Re: Low Income Housing To Be Built On Hospital Site

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I’m missing something.
I don’t understand your reference to ‘low income housing’.

I watched the video.
20% of residential space will be ‘affordable’.
I don’t know the parameters of ‘affordable’, but why is that being equated to those with a ‘low income’?
Bridget Conant
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We were lied to and screwed over. Those sounding the alarm were considered kooks, but it turned out we were right.

Mayor George has made the best of what was dumped on her and I’m glad for anything going there as that hole is unsightly and a gross reminder of how we were fu€ked over.
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Re: Low Income Housing To Be Built On Hospital Site

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Roll Call
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Part of the nearly $500,000 the city and others paid to lie and mislead you.

Why? Notice the names, and where they have ended up.


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Dan Alaimo
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Post by Dan Alaimo »

The gang's all there.
Jim O'Bryan wrote:Roll Call
Image

Part of the nearly $500,000 the city and others paid to lie and mislead you.

Why? Notice the names, and where they have ended up.


peace/love

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“Never let a good crisis go to waste." - Winston Churchill (Quote later appropriated by Rahm Emanuel)
Dan Alaimo
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Post by Dan Alaimo »

My reaction exactly. 20% "affordable" housing is hardly a slum. I'm interested to see how this shakes out.
pj bennett wrote:I’m missing something.
I don’t understand your reference to ‘low income housing’.

I watched the video.
20% of residential space will be ‘affordable’.
I don’t know the parameters of ‘affordable’, but why is that being equated to those with a ‘low income’?
“Never let a good crisis go to waste." - Winston Churchill (Quote later appropriated by Rahm Emanuel)
cmager
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Jim O'Bryan wrote:Roll Call
Image
Part of the nearly $500,000 the city and others paid to lie and mislead you.
Why? Notice the names, and where they have ended up.

peace/love
Oooo, I love guessing games! I'll go...with the once how many $100M's...
Were they embarrassed into leaving, or chased out of Lakewood?
Or, did they end up in Foundation jobs that super-slowly don't accomplish whatever claims they laid in 2015?
Or, did they ...
Amy Martin
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Re: Low Income Housing To Be Built On Hospital Site

Post by Amy Martin »

Back to the subject of "affordability" . . . .

We live just feet from one of the new Solove Projects which are being built on the former Spitzer and Barry Buick sites. When the projects were finally approved by the Planning Commission, tax breaks were given to the developer with the caveat that a certain percentage of the units would be "affordable" so that lower income residents would have the opportunity to rent there. We were STUNNED to learn that "affordable" equated to rent in the $1500 - $2000 a month range!!! So, "affordable" is all relative . . . .and the tax incentives are all smoke and mirrors.
Mark Kindt
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Post by Mark Kindt »

Amy Martin is absolutely correct in her assessment of the outcome of development planning.

What Mr. Call sees as "low-income" housing, many of us see this as "subsidized" housing for the prosperous. I have written about all of this at length before here earlier.

More in awhile...
Mark Kindt
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Re: Low Income Housing To Be Built On Hospital Site

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I have lived here since 1980, owned a home here since 1996, and operated my business here since 2001. I have never met a single one of these people listed on this promotional document.

Just who empowered them to wreck Lakewood to the ground?

The rest of us have to live here.
Mark Kindt
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When our best doctors and nurses support the demolition of award-winning healthcare infrastructure, you kind of know that its over for the rest of us.

Guess what? We all just found that out.

Again, I don't know anyone on this list.
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